Charles Bridgeman 1690-1738 bridge between the Baroque and the Landscape Garden th-century English Landscape Garden William Kent 1684-1740 Architect, painter & set designer “Nature abhors a straight line” “*William Kent+ leapt the fence and saw that all nature was a garden” • A naturalistic, informal style utilized design techniques that pulled one through the landscape, including conceal/reveal, surprise, and borrowed landscape • Use of freeform lakes and meadows and groups of trees to create space • Incorporation of literary allusions and mythological content to create powerful scenes that would unfold as a series of paintings as one progressed through the landscape • Utilization of architectural and sculptural features (including Classically-themed temples, gothic churches and cottages, Egyptian obelisks, Palladian pavilions, and artificial ruins)